> > The one probably led to the other. OTOH it's always cool when you're
> 
> My takeaway was that Dr. Nakamats is a puffer and
> a charlatan, and Sidney P. Woodsum was 
> approximately the opposite.
> 
The guy who doesn't take credit until confronted is the one I'd go with
too.

> > recognized for something only a true fellow geek would know. 
> 
> For sure, but it can get creepy. My credit card
> used to just use my initials, and very 
> occasionally someone would say, are you related
> to the musician Michael Loo, and I'd get acutely
> embarrassed, but maybe that's just me.

People recognize my name once they've seen it, but not before.  
 
> > > Lighter-colored roasts are my coffee preference.
> > I tend to like both; the blonde roasts have more caffeine, I'm told. The
> > more the merrier!
> 
> I don't know about the caffeine, but they do
> taste better to me.

If it tastes good black with nothing, I'm into it.
 
> > Sounds like food.  If you really want burnt beans, go for the Dunkin.  I
> > made that mistake once, it was free, but free was all it was worth. Yuch. 
> > Never again.  
> 
> Funny, Dunkin used to have a perfectly
> respectable medium roast. Perhaps they

Still do as far as I know.

> went over to the dark side because of the
> popularity of *$. Shows how ancient my
> experience is - I've not had a Dunkin cup 
> in decades, and it was decaf at that.

Their cold brew is good stuff.  
 
> Lilli had some way-past-expiration milk
> and wondered why the fridge smelled. I
> found the culprit and with heavy heart,
> because it was whole milk, fed it to the
> septic tank.

...while it would still pour instead of coming out in chunks?